Comic Metamorphoses: Being a Perfect Encyclopedia of Fun and Humor, and Containing Comic Lectures, Comic Songs, Comic Poetry, Delineations of Eccentric Characters ... Also, Showing Up American Character and Characteristics, in All Its Varieties, from the "Yankee" Way Down East to the Pioneers in Arkansaw

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Dick and Fitzgerald, 1856 - 280 strani
 

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Stran 182 - ... us hands which could take a granite quarry and break its solid acres into suitable and symmetrical blocks, as easily as we now open an orange. Had he intended us for bearing burdens, he would have given us Atlantean shoulders, by which we could carry the vast freights of rail-car and steamship, as a porter carries his pack. He would have given us lungs by which we could blow fleets before us, and wings to sweep over ocean wastes. But, instead of iron arms, and Atlantean shoulders, and the lungs...
Stran 181 - ... equestrian's toil and tardiness. The cotton mills of Massachusetts will turn out more cloth in one day than could have been manufactured by all the inhabitants of the Eastern continent during the tenth century. On an element which in ancient times was supposed to be exclusively within the control of the gods, and where it was deemed impious for human power to intrude, even there the gigantic forces of nature, which human science and skill have enlisted in their service, confront and overcome...
Stran 189 - I'm sartin'. Ef they are all as green as yew 'bout here, I'm goin' to locate immediately, and tew wonst." The landlord rushes out to the stable, and starts a man off after the stage, which had gone about three miles. The man overtakes the stage, and says something to the driver in a low tone.
Stran 39 - Treason, treason!" echoed from every part of the house. Henry faltered not for an instant, but, taking a loftier attitude, and fixing on the speaker an eye of fire, he added " may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it...
Stran 182 - ... races of mankind, were it all gathered into a single arm. And all these energies are given us on one condition, — the condition of intelligence — that is of education. Had God intended that the work of the world should be done by human bones and sinews, he would have given us an arm as solid and strong as the shaft of a steam engine ; and enabled us to stand, day and night, and turn the crank of a steamship while sailing to Liverpool or Calcutta. Had God designed the human muscles to do the...
Stran 143 - twas meat, and drink, and physic, To see the friendly vapour Curl round his midnight taper, And the black fume Clothe all the room, In clouds as dark as science metaphysic.
Stran 182 - ... globe. The velocity of winds, the weight of waters, and the rage of steam, are powers each one of which is infinitely stronger than all the strength of all the nations and races of mankind, were it all gathered into a single arm. And all these energies are given us on one condition, — the condition of intelligence — that is of education.
Stran 189 - bout to conclude paying my devowers to this ere table, but just give us a bowl of bread and milk to top off with; I'd be much obleeged tew ye." So out go the landlord and waiter for the bowl, milk, and bread, and set them before him.
Stran 167 - MR. SPEAKER: Sir! Our fellow citizen, Mr. SILAS HIGOIN?, who was lately a member of this branch of the Legislature, Is dead, and he died yesterday in the forenoon. He had the brown-creaters, (bronchitis was meant,) and was an uncommon individual. His character was good up to the time of his death, and he never lost his woice.

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